{"id":1260008,"date":"2022-11-30T12:42:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/30\/qatar-2022-you-risk-going-to-jail-if-you-resell-match-tickets-sports-minister-warns-ghana-supporters\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:42:19","slug":"qatar-2022-you-risk-going-to-jail-if-you-resell-match-tickets-sports-minister-warns-ghana-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/30\/qatar-2022-you-risk-going-to-jail-if-you-resell-match-tickets-sports-minister-warns-ghana-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar 2022: You risk going to jail if you resell match tickets \u2013 Sports Minister warns Ghana supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image_2022-11-30_071225682-696x464.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ghanaian fans\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, has warned that supporters who resell Ghana match tickets could face court action in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, some people are in police custody facing criminal charges for the resale of tickets in the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Police and the various agencies are always at the stadiums monitoring things, we have toiled to get you tickets, we don\u2019t want any of you to go out and sell the tickets we have given you,\u201d he said during a meeting with the supporters at their base in Doha, Almadaen Complex.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ghana-fans-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>He revealed that Ghana Mission to Qatar has received evidence of people facing court action, though he did not state categorically if they are Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, the authorities have arrested some people and taken them to court, they have sent the evidence to the Ambassador, we don\u2019t want anybody to fall into this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appealing to you not to get yourselves involved in acts like that. We will work to make sure you all get tickets to the stadium, but once you have it, protect it; don\u2019t lose it for someone to pick it up to go and sell,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours emerged last week Thursday that police arrested some football fans for selling match tickets between\u00a0$200\u00a0and\u00a0$300.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"BjkYoewtwJk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-on-One with Doris Benjamin - Sickle Cell Patient\/Awareness Advocate | Mahyease (29-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BjkYoewtwJk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, has warned that supporters who resell Ghana match tickets could face court action in Qatar. According to him, some people are in police custody facing criminal charges for the resale of tickets in the FIFA World Cup. \u201cThe Police and the various agencies are always at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[85,4744,1508,1223,2457,29484,425,871,4187,5238,170],"class_list":["post-1260008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ghana","tag-jail","tag-match","tag-minister","tag-qatar","tag-resell","tag-risk","tag-sports","tag-supporters","tag-tickets","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}